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      • Norris Peters

        1834 — 1889

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        1840 — 1891

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        1840 — 1891

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        1853 — 1916

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        1832 — 1877

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        1844 — 1922

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        1832 — 1879

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        1836 — 1898

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        1820 — 1890

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        1834 — 1865

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        1823 — 1889

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        1823 — 1878

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      • Ann P. Baily

        1817 — 1890

      • Edmund Smedley

        1810 — 1885

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        1879 — 1943

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        1875 — 1953

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        1839 — 1917

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Alexander, Samuel, comp., Chester County, PA., Business Directory containing the Names, Business and Address for the Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional Men throughout the County… 1870-1871. Albany, New York: Andrew Boyd, 1870.

Board of Trade, Directory and Business Guide of Coatesvillle, Pennsylvania, 1897. Coatesville, PA: Board of Trade, 1897.

Boyd, Andrew, comp. Boyd’s Chester County, Chester City and Media Business Directory Containing the Names, Business and Address of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional Men. 1873-1874. Pottsville, PA : Robert H. Ramsey, printer, 1873.

Boyd, Andrew and W. Harry Boyd comps. Boyd’s Business Directory of over One Hundred Cities and Towns in Pennsylvania…1873-4. Syracuse, New York: Andrew Boyd/ Pottsville, Pa. : W. Harry Boyd, 1873.

Boyd, C. E. copyright, Boyd’s Chester County, Pennsylvania, Directory 1897. Fragment, Coatesville Street Directory. Philadelphia: C. E. Howe Company, 1897.

Boyd, C. E. copyright, Boyd’s Chester County, Pennsylvania, Directory 1898-1899. Philadelphia: C. E. Howe Company, 1898.

Boyd, S. Fred, compiler and publisher. Boyd’s West Chester Directory for 1879-80. Wilmington, Delaware: James & Webb, 1879.

Boyd, Sibbald F. copyright. Boyd’s Chester County, Pennsylvania Directory. 1896-97. Philadelphia: C.E. Howe Company, 1896.

Boyd, W. Andrew, comp. Boyd’s Chester County Directory 1882-83 [for] West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville, Oxford, Downingtown, Kennett Square with a business Directory of County and a large list of Farmers with their Post Office Address. N.p.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1882.

Boyd, W. Andrew, comp. Boyd’s Chester County Directory, 1884-1885. Containing a Complete, General and Business Directory of West Chester, Phoenixville and Oxford. N.p.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1884.

Boyd, W. Andrew, compiler and publisher. Boyd’s Chester County Directory, 1886-1887. Containing a Complete, General and Business Directory of West Chester, Phoenixville and Oxford. N.P.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1886.

Boyd, W. Andrew, compiler and publisher. Boyd’s Chester County Directory, 1888-1889. Containing a Complete, General and Business Directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville and Oxford. Washington, D.C.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1888.

Boyd, W. Andrew, compiler and publisher. Boyd’s Chester County Directory, 1890-1891. Containing a Complete, General and Business Directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville and Oxford. Washington, D.C.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1890.

Boyd, W. Andrew, compiler and publisher. Boyd’s Chester County Directory, 1893-1894. Containing a Complete, General and Business Directory of West Chester, Phoenixville, Coatesville and Oxford. Washington, D.C.: W. Andrew Boyd, 1893.

Boyd, William H. Boyd’s Business Directory of the Counties of Adams, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Delaware, Franklin, Lancaster, Montgomery and York, Pa. Together with a General Directory of all the Inhabitants of Harrisburg and an Appendix of Much Useful Information. Philadelphia: William H. Boyd, 1860.

Boyd, William H. Boyd’s Pennsylvania State Business Directory, 1861. Philadelphia: William H. Boyd, 1861.

Coatesville Board of Trade, A Pocket Directory and Business Guide of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, including the Villages of Hustonville, Rock Run, Etc., 1897. Coatesville, Pa., Board of Trade, 1897.

Darlington, William. Directory of the Borough of West Chester for 1857, Containing a Complete History of the Borough… West Chester, Pennsylvania: Wood & James, 1857.

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